Graflex Speed Graphic 4x5 w/Wollensak 127mm f/4.7 GOOD+

Unusually good example of one of our favorite large format cameras!

Speeds sound accurate, glass is clean. The bellows look great.

The Graflex Speed Graphic was a press photographer's camera that started in 1912 and was still in production until 1968.

Later version examples feature two shutters; a focal-plane cloth shutter in the body, and a leaf-shutter lens on the lens board on the front of the camera.

Advantage or the rear shutter is it has very high speeds up to 1/1000th, more than twice as fast as most leaf-shutter lenses.

You can also use older barrel lenses without a shutter using the rear.

Focus is achieved by scale, or with the built in rangefinder focus. There is a seperate finder mounted on the top of the camera for framing.

You can also focus using the ground glass on the rear of the camera.

Most focal length lenses will fit. 90mm to 300mm can be used without modifications.

The camera has limited movements but does have front rise/fall and tilt.

The whole thing folds into a box smaller than an average lunch box.